Homily #090610m ( 10min) Play – Ave Maria!

So here’s our first homily from Mt. St. Francis Hermitage, Maine NY, and the celebrant is Fr. Johannes Michael Mary Smith.

One of our AirMaria.com crew members is on a temporary assignment at the friary in Maine and so he’s going to start posting 3 homilies a week from there. This homily is a good great start.

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The post Jun 10 – Homily – Fr Johannes: The Law is Written on Your Heart first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090614m ( 18min) Play – The Feast of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I always liked this story about St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas – I would also have liked to have seen the text composed by St. Bonaventure!
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The post Jun 14 – Homily – Fr Johannes: Corpus Christi first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090703m ( 10min) Play – St. Irenaeus was the student of a disciple of St. John the Apostle.  Father quotes St. Irenaeus concerning Our Lady, calling her the New Eve who “through her obedience untied the knot that had been bound by Eve.”  St. Irenaeus also calls Her the “Cause of Salvation for Herself and for all the children of Eve.”
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The post Jul 03 – Homily – Fr Johannes: St Irenaeus – Father of the Church first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090708m ( 13min) Play – “Blessed are the peacemakers,  for they shall be called children of  God.”  Real peace begins with making peace with God.  Father Johannes relates a few stories of St. Elizabeth and how she lived out this beatitude heroically.

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The post Jul 08 – Homily – Fr Johannes: Blessed are the Peacemakers – St. Elizabeth first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090711ms ( 15 min) Play – St. Veronica “consecrated herself to Our Lady and she sought to become a living image of Our Lady…so close was the similarity between St. Veronica and Our Blessed Lady that they were almost interchangeable…”
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The post Jul 11 – Homily – Fr Johannes: St. Veronica Giuliani first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090720ms ( 13min) Play – Our sanctity is always through the intervention of Our Lady and Father explains how this was the case with Jerome Emiliani.  As Saint Bonaventure said, “I’ve never heard of a saint who did not have devotion to Our Lady, and I’ve never heard of a great saint that did not have a great devotion to Our Lady.”

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The post Jul 20 – Homily – Fr Johannes: Jerome Emiliani and Devotion to Mary first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090722m ( 13min) Play – She washed Our Lord’s feet with her tears and wiped His feet with her hair. What a privileged and  beautiful Saint is our Saint Mary Magdalen!
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The post Jul 22 – Homily – Fr Johannes: St Mary Magdalen first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090725m ( 10min) Play – In today’s Gospel, the mother of St. James and St. John ambitiously sought for her sons the glory of sitting at Christ’s left and right in His Kingdom.  However, Our Lord teaches that true glory consists in being like God in self-sacrificing Love and Humility.  We need to imitate Him Who gave His very last drop of Blood for us, Who humbly hid himself as a child in Bethlehem, and hides himself in the Eucharist.
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The post Jul 25 – Homily – Fr Johannes: St James the Greater first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090731m ( 14min) Play – Father gives a short description of the life and conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola.  His can be a comforting story for many of us who used to live lives contrary to the Gospel.
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The post Jul 31 – Homily – Fr Johannes: St. Ignatius of Loyola first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090805m ( 11min) Play – Every year, on the anniversary of the Dedication of the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major, snow is showered down from the ceiling. This is the oldest Church in the West dedicated to Our Blessed Mother, and the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate are honored to be the sacristans at this great Basilica.
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The post Aug 05 – Homily – Fr Johannes: The Dedication of St. Mary Major first appeared on AirMaria.com.